While much more suitable as an autumn shot in most of the USA, these southern California maple leaves fell and were raked into a pile around the new year. My neighbor, Bill, the raker, was in a blissful state doing the job. He gladly let me photograph them but declined my offer to help.

An English professor he was also pleased the photo showed a hole in the middle of the pile, an umbilicus (latin root) he told me.

Barry Rothstein

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